Googles AI Mode can now find you a table for dinner in search and soon it'll find concert tickets too

Date:
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:27:05 +0000

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Google AI Mode just got a major upgrade, and it can now use an AI agent to find you dinner reservation options.

FULL STORY ======================================================================AI Mode can now find you dinner reservation options based on your preferences It'll soon be able to find you concert tickets too US users can get even more personalized results

Google has given its AI Mode a major upgrade by giving it agentic
capabilities that will help you find a restaurant table and Im more than impressed with how well it works.

When Google added AI Overviews to search you could almost hear a collective sigh of Why? go out around the world. There seemed to be a consensus that there was too much AI in everything, and we didn't need it, especially in search.

But over time AI Overviews a kind of summary of answers to whatever you
asked have started to prove more and more useful, and these days I quite often get something good from the AI Overview without having to scroll down the list of search results.

Next came AI Mode, a full-on AI search engine that occupies the first of the tabs on the Google search page, and is similar to ChatGPT Search and Perplexity . It uses AI to search the web, so if you want to do natural language searching, rather than keyword-based searching as you do in a normal Google search, its much more catered to your needs.

Now Google has gone even further and given its AI Mode agentic qualities specifically for finding available restaurant slots for you, so it can do a little bit more digging, and get better results, than a standard AI Mode search would. Bon apptit

So, if you enter AI Mode in Google then ask about getting a dinner
reservation for four, name a date, time and location and, of course, the type of restaurant or food youre interested in, AI Mode can now speed up the process, giving you a list of options for restaurants that meet your specific needs and which have free reservation slots.

There are limitations: AI Mode cant go as far as booking the table for you just yet, but it will link you directly to the booking page, so it puts the decision right into your hands.

Ive tried it out for restaurants in my local area, and it worked very well. I even doubted that one of the very good restaurants would have a free table at that time, but I was wrong!

AI Mode even told me that there was no point in trying to book at my
preferred venue since it was closed on a Sunday evening, and recommended some other options. Tickets soon

Google says its working with OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Booksy and many more to make this experience possible, which means that concert tickets could be the next thing AI Mode is able to help you reserve.

Users in the US who have opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs will get even more personalized results, which will use your previous conversations along with places youve searched or tapped on in Maps. So, if you ask, Ive
got half an hour for lunch, where should I go?, it will use this information to recommend somewhere that fits your preferences.

While AI being integrated into Google search may have started off as an annoyance, its slowly becoming a set of really helpful tools that might even start to turn the tables and get ChatGPT-maker OpenAI worried. You might also like GPT5 Pro is brilliant, but its still nowhere near real AGI, says one of the professors who coined the term I compared ChatGPT5s three model options, and the results explain why people miss GPT4o I've been using Google Search for 25 years and AI overview is the one thing that could ruin it for me



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